RE: Racism and slander against Kurds on steemit

[joe.nobel]

Hate speech - yes,
Abuse - yes.
Degrading an image ... - no.

I've read Sarah's articles. I only see journalism. I don't see hate speech or abuse of any kind. You may criticize her factually, and provide corrections with proof, but it is unethical to silence someone because you disagree with them.

Instead, may I suggest, that you actually /upvote/ her next time you find something you disagree with. Write a constructive comment along with the upvote detailing where you believe she has erred. Who knows, maybe she will invite you for an interview so you may explain your side thus getting you equal coverage.

And believe me, I don't know her, I've never met her. I've only read two or three of her posts. I certainly don't know anyone from that part of the world. This is really not my business.

I hope you can sort this out,
Joe

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[ronahi]

Accusing us of ethnic cleansing, land grabbing or racism isn't journalism, it's a smear campaign, it's slander, it's heinous. Twisting the truth isn't journalism, it's misleading fake news.

With all due respect as you said yourself, you don't know anyone from that part of the world. Well I do. My friends family and friends risked and died trying to defend humanity. For someone to degrade their image to terrorism or egoistic self-interest, I'm sorry I find that insulting, I find that to be abusive and unethical. Furthermore to earn money from that, I find that to be pitiful and distasteful.

People like you don't know much about that part of the world and with people like her you will know even less.

And you're so gullible mate. She's exaggerating my reach, you really think I would waste my time downvoting all her posts and comments. You can see in my wallet I don't have a lot of what you would call power. I all did was shine the light on her lies with one post, if others chose to down vote her, it means I'm not the only one that thinks she writes bullshit. She's just acting like an innocent victim to gain sympathy.

...I do not understand what goes into downvoting or why some accounts can do it while others can not but there should be some sort of consequence for those that misuse their power. This has been going on for a while now and I didn't bring it up but now that my comments are being hidden and my posts are all being downvoted I felt like I could not stay silent any longer....

Seriously ?

Have a nice day.

[joe.nobel]

If I am wrong about you, then I apologize. Still I'm sure there are ways you can work with her. Have you tried to reach out?

I won't bother you any more. Like I said, it's really not my fight.

[ronahi]

I threw her a lifeline within in my post which she chose to ignore :

You see at least 35 million, we are not happy being occupied by other countries as you wouldn't be. Why can't we compromise, agree and settle this matter once and for all instead of lunching smear campaigns, propaganda and war ? Why not rather choose to be two peaceful neighbors than two ennemies in the same house ?
You spoke about claiming land in which we are not a majority, how about we give back the land in which we are not a majority and you give us the land in which we are ? Let's also make a country for the Assyrians and Êzidîs (Yazidis) if they wish so. Deal ? I believe all minorities who don't already have a homeland, deserve the chance to achieve statehood, the right to learn and educate in their own mother tongue, the chance to govern themselves. If it could end the conflict and bloodshed I don't give a damn if there are a thousand states or one whole one, but make it equal and peaceful for all people, call it utopia.

I don't think working with her is possible.

Just double check what you read. Research and listen to the story from all sides from reliable sources and use logic like don't do to others what you wouldn't want them to do to you or the freedoms you enjoy, others have the same right as you. Maybe to understand what I'm trying to say, you should read my other post https://steemit.com/life/@ronahi/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-kurd.

Take care.

[sarahabed]

I have clearly backed up every claim with facts in every one of my articles. The land grabbing, ethnic cleansing, child soldiers, kidnapping, alliances with FSA and other terrorist organizations and yes even working closesly with Daesh have all been backed by facts, pictures, videos, testimonies, etc. I stand by EVERY article I have written, and so do all of the publications that have republished my articles for their readers to learn more about the current situation. Ronahi is just one of a number of Kurdish activists that want to silence me. He has downvoted me 13 times. Is that not an indication of obsessive behavior? Ronahi does not want the world to be exposed to information that counters mainstream media's false romanticized image of his cause.

But characters like Ronahi only reveal their own racism while falsely accusing others of being racists. He has gained sympathy from a clearly unhinged account under the bloom who has a lot of steem power and has downvoted my posts and comments 100% 10 times so far... he is doing so in hopes that his malicious behavior will drive me out of here.. Both of these accounts represent the dark and very ugly side of steemit that are trying to put a dark cloud over curators such as myself who are on a mission to report the truth. Hopefully the Steemit community will be able to take some actions against these two egotistical, bigoted, hateful accounts and rid this community of their poison.

the truth is coming out faster than they can silence it and the world is finding out what is REALLY driving their cause and it isn't what they falsely protray.

[joe.nobel]

PS, upvoting your comment. I have no ill-will against you.